FinovateFall 2014 Archives - Page 2 of 8

Sr. Pago Seeks to Remove the High Fees Associated with Check Cashing Services

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on September 24, 2014
Categories: FinovateFall 2014, Sr. Pago

This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateFall 2014.

Sr. Pago debuted its card and reader solution:

“With Sr. Pago, small businesses and individuals can both accept card payment for services they render and then have that money loaded onto a card that can be used anywhere MasterCard is accepted.

It seeks to provide a secure ecosystem for a population that has been subjected to the high fees associated with check cashing, the inconveniences of using convenience stores to perform basic banking functions, and the security risks of carrying cash for everyday transactions.”

Presenting: Pablo Gonzalez Vargas, CEO & Co-Founder

Product Launch: May 2014

Metrics: The company currently has 25 employees and has raised approximately $1M in seed funding from private investors.

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C), Direct to Business (B2B)

HQ: Mexico City, Mexico

Founded: 2010

Website: senorpago.com

Twitter: @SrPagoOficial

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FamDoo Launches Modern Allowance to Boost Financial Literacy in Kids

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on September 24, 2014
Categories: FamDoo, FinovateFall 2014

This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateFall 2014.

FamDoo launched its Modern Allowance:

“FamDoo allows parents to buy FamDoo Points or transfer their existing bank and/or loyalty points to our platform, then use those points to reward kids for completed tasks.

This family rewards system is The Modern Allowance, an applied learning approach to fiscal management and financial literacy. Earned points can be saved, donated, and/or redeemed for a partner’s reloadable debit card product. FamDoo is actively seeking loyalty program and banking partners.”

Presenting: Mark Lacek, CEO & Co-Founder, FamDoo and Michele Landis, VP Business Development

Product Launch: January 2014 (soft launch); May 2014 (2.0)

Metrics: $1.8M raised, 5 FTEs & ~4 FTE contractors, 18,000 members, rated 9 out of 10 in kid pilot

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C), Direct to Business (B2B) through financial institutions other FinTech companies and family-oriented platforms

HQ: Minneapolis, MN

Founded: April 2013

Website: famdoo.com

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Algomi Launches Honeycomb

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on September 24, 2014
Categories: Algomi, FinovateFall 2014

This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateFall 2014.

Algomi debuted Honeycomb, a buyside GUI that facilitates less risky trades:

“Algomi’s technology collates all information points within a bank’s credit trading business. Customized algorithms are written and push most relevant and profitable opportunities in real time to the appropriate salespeople within the franchise that can help facilitate a riskless trade.

Algomi’s buyside GUI, Honeycomb, enables end investors to see which dealer is best placed to facilitate these illiquid block trades without disturbing the market picture. Honeycomb brings client marketing up to the standards of the best online retailing (think Amazon.com). Honeycomb is ‘Smart Marketing’.”

Presenting: Stu Taylor, CEO and Usman Khan, CTO

Product Launch: Q4 2014

Metrics: 87 employees in London, New York, and Zurich, hundreds of registered users globally within multiple investment banks and buyside institutions, $20M raised to date and multimillion dollar revenues in the first year with very high growth trajectory

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C)

HQ: London, UK

Founded: June 2012

Website: algomi.com

Twitter: @algomi_ltd

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Powerlytics Launches Lending Workbench to Help FIs Make Better Lending Decisions

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on September 24, 2014
Categories: FinovateFall 2014, Powerlytics

This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateFall 2014.

Powerlytics launched its Lending Workbench:

“Powerlytics Lending Workbench is a series of products that provides financial institutions an unprecedented level of data accuracy and granularity throughout the lending life cycle. The Market Strategy platform covers key decision points such as totals for revenue, debt, and number of companies across over 1,110 industries, down to a county level.

The Portfolio Concentration platform scores companies based on size and industry across multiple geographies or within a geography. Scores focus on risk, growth, and profitability across 27M businesses to assess market risk and opportunity. Powerlytics Business Benchmarks provides detailed company benchmarking.”

Presenting: Kevin Sheetz, CEO & Co-Founder and Pat Brown, Sr. Director, Stategic Sales

Product Launch: September 2014

Metrics: $5M raised to date, 12 employees, clients include some of the largest financial services and professional services companies in the world

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through other fintech companies

HQ: Doylestown, PA

Founded: April 2011

Website: powerlytics.com

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Anchor ID’s Secure Authentication Solution Makes the Password Obsolete

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on September 24, 2014
Categories: Anchor ID, FinovateFall 2014

This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateFall 2014.

Anchor ID showed how its universal user name replaces the need for passwords:

“Anchor ID’s new approach to global access and identity authentication evolves consumers beyond the frustrating password and security models that compromise convenience and security. We are the only solution that enables consumer freedom to go, buy, and access whatever they want online, with the highest security protections without the use of passwords.

Users get one universal user name (like a master key) that serves as a unique identifier, your phone is the anchor for authentication, and we apply the pillars of advanced security and authentication: something you know, something you have, something you are. We safeguard that it’s you and not someone else trying to be you.”

Presenting: David Schropfer, CEO

Product Launch: September 2014

Metrics: Over $500,000 seed money raised, 5 employees

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C)

HQ: Kingston, NY

Founded: January 2014

Website: anchorid.com

Twitter: @AnchorID

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Geezeo Launches TruBusiness to Help FIs Engage Business Customers

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on September 24, 2014
Categories: FinovateFall 2014, Geezeo

This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateFall 2014.

Geezeo debuted TruBusiness, a white-label financial management tool for businesses:

“Small and middle market businesses represent critical markets for FIs. TruBusiness is a white label business financial management tool that helps FIs better engage the market. At the same time, the tool offers robust online financial management to business banking clients, offering business customers and FIs predictive insight and capability beyond the expected.”

Presenting: Shawn Ward, CEO and Peter Glyman, President

Product Launch: November 2014

Metrics: Geezeo, a rapidly growing, established FinTech firm, is privately held, has 30 employees, and over 300 financial institutions as clients.

Product distribution strategy: Like all Geezeo products, we expect our business financial management solution will be offered to financial institutions directly and via channel partners through other fintech companies with a keen interest in the small to mid-size business banking market.

HQ: Tolland, CT

Founded: June 2006

Website: geezeo.com

Twitter: @Geezeo

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Minetta Brook’s KNEWSAPP Helps Traders Surface Developing News Stories

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on September 24, 2014
Categories: FinovateFall 2014, Minetta Brook

This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateFall 2014.

Minetta Brook launched KNEWSAPP:

“Minetta Brook is launching a web application version of KNEWSAPP, a real-time news scoring and discovery application that is currently available only on the Bloomberg Professional™ platform. KNEWSAPP allows trading and investment professionals to take advantage of news related market inefficiencies by surfacing tickers, topics, and stories that are currently developing in the news.

This web based product democratizes access to our ground-breaking, real-time, content-discovery technology and to our proprietary scores that lets you surface developing stories from across the entirety of news.”

Presenting: Deepak Bharadwaj, CEO & Founder and Viplav Nigam, VP Engineering

Product Launch: September 2014

Metrics: $2.4M in funding, 10 employees, over 100 firms in trial & beta, 40,000+ news sources

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C), Direct to Business (B2B), through other fintech companies and platforms

HQ: Seattle, WA

Founded: September 2011

Website: knewsapp.com

Twitter: @knewsapp

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“Game On!” Kapitall Launches New Mobile App for iOS

By David Penn Posted on September 24, 2014
Categories: FinovateFall 2014, Kapitall

This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateFall 2014.

Making their way to the stage next is the team from Kapitall, demoing Kapitall Tournament & Pocket.

Kapitall is launching its mobile trading application as well as its latest virtual stock tournament game at FinovateFall 2014. For iOS devices, Kapitall mobile users will have the investing and gaming functionality at their fingertips. Practice, tournament, and live brokerage portfolios will be available to help members of all ages and investing skill sets to learn, play, and invest.

Presenting: Gaspard De Dreuzy (Co-Founder) and Antonio Reyes (Head of Development)

Product Launch: September 2014

Metrics: $25M raised

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms

HQ: New York, NY

Founded: March 2008

Website: kapitall.com

Twitter: @Kapitall

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NopSec’s Unified VRM Scans for IT Vulnerabilities

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on September 24, 2014
Categories: FinovateFall 2014, Nopsec

This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateFall 2014.

NopSec demonstrated how Unified VRM helps FIs scan for and manage IT vulnerabilities:

“Cloud-based vulnerability risk management SaaS.

Unified VRM helps businesses holistically manage IT security vulnerabilities, on premises and in the cloud, in a unified, proactive, and flexible way. Unified VRM aggregates the results of vulnerability scanners, proactively prioritizes vulnerabilities based on business risk, and expedites remediation by streamlining the ticketing process and reports.

Unified VRM is different from legacy vulnerability scanners in 3 ways:

1. Focus on remediation – remediation is easier when you know what to fix

2. Automate the process – no more burdensome manual tasks

3. Software that just works – eliminate complexity, improve visibility, and glean insights for better decision making”

Presenting: Steven Leonard, CMO and Michelangelo Sidagni, CTO

Product Launch: November 2011

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), licensed

HQ: New York, NY

Founded: January 2009

Website: nopsec.com

Twitter: @nopsec

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SAS Games’ Platform Helps Students and Families Afford College

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on September 24, 2014
Categories: FinovateFall 2014, SAS Games

This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateFall 2014.

SAS Games debuted TiViTz College $avings Game-a-thon:

“The TiViTz College $avings Game-a-thon is a market disruptive tool that complements existing financial savings vehicles and provides a solution for families to offset potential student loan debt and help cover the cost of higher education. The Game-a-thon (where students solicit pledges online from friends and family for playing TiViTz games) is similar to a Walk-a-thon fundraiser, only fully automated from pledge solicitation to fund deposit into a savings vehicle.

The Game-a-thon is positioned to fundamentally change the way families think about affording college and to significantly empower children to take responsibility for and contribute to their own advanced education . . . all while improving their math skills and financial literacy.”

Presenting: Siobhan Mullen, CEO and Stephen Scully, President

Product Launch: November 2014

Metrics: SAS Games has raised over $5M from angel investors to develop the various TiViTz products, tournaments, and programs. The company has 10 employees to manage tournaments, events, operations, marketing, and promotions, as well as product development with our game developers in Europe (Unit9) and software tool developers based in California and Japan with programmers in Vietnam (SETA International).

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies & platforms, licensed

HQ: Cocoa, FL

Founded: February 2004

Product Demoed: TiViTz College $avings Game-a-thon

Website: tivitzcollegesavings.com

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CR2 Demoes BankWorld Money Voucher’s Cash Send App

By David Penn Posted on September 24, 2014
Categories: CR2, FinovateFall 2014

This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateFall 2014.

Our next presenter is CR2, demoing the Cash Send application of its BankWorld Money Voucher platform.

“CR2 is demonstrating the BankWorld Cash Send application at Finovate. Cash Send is a truly omnichannel product recently deployed. It allows people to instantly send cash to any individual from a mobile app; this cash is instantly dispensed from an ATM without the recipient needing an ATM card or indeed a bank account of any type. It significantly lowers the cost of remitting funds to any individuals outside of the classic banking system.”

Presenting: Kieran Kilcullen (Director, Sales & Marketing) & Patrick Simons (Principal Consultant)

Product Launch: 2013

Metrics: Over 100 banks in 60 countries have adopted CR2’s solutions. CR2 has a network of well-established offices strategically located in 6 countries: Ireland, Australia, India, South Africa, UAE, and Jordan.

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), licensed

HQ: Dublin, Ireland

Founded: 1997

Website: cr2.com

Twitter: @CR2_Ltd

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Malauzai Software Unveils its Mobile Banking SmartApps for Community FIs

By David Penn Posted on September 24, 2014
Categories: FinovateFall 2014, Malauzai Software

This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateFall 2014.

Finishing off the second session of the morning is Malauzai Software, demoing its SmartwebApps.

“Designed for an exceptional user experience with superior economic value, SmartwebApps delivers the next generation of mobile banking, leveraging the power of an app-like experience on any device, desktop, or browser.”

Presenting: Robb Gaynor (Chief Product Officer & Founder), Danny Piangerelli (CTO), and Craig Agulnek (Director, Product Management)

Product Launch: September 2014

Metrics: Based in Austin, TX, Malauzai Software has more than 50 employees and 300 customers (190+ live), representing more than 400,000 SmartApp users and 500,000 downloads

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms

HQ: Austin, TX

Founded: July 2009

Website: malauzai.com

Twitter: @malauzaimonkeys

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